Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND
STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,857,500 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($1,700,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $559k
What State Democracy Action Fund does
Mission
Provide the education and skills needed to connect everyday people with their state government and work to help state governments represent the diverse population of their communities and advance policies that promote inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Data, research, and education to connect everyday people with their state government and help state governments represent the diverse population of their communities and advance policies that promote inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all.
$1,831,816 spentof which $1,175,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,831,816.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $777k to $251k (−68%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Katelyn Stoner
Executive director
Board chair
Jessica Post
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $380k → $25k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fair Districts Fund); $1.0M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Civic Involvement Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 74% · 2019 100% · 2020 45% · 2021 97% · 2022 69% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
14% of STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
52% of STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.3M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 543 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 543 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 31 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Fair Districts Fund · exempt
- Legislative Majority PAC · exempt
- Dlcc PAC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND?
- STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,857,500 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($1,700,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $4,857,500 in grants to STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND?
- SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 15 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing